This is the first in a new series of post that I am still figuring out the name. I am going to give the advertisement picture of the item and the company’s description and then give you my picture and my description. I am thinking maybe calling it Mad Men Mondays in honor of the 1960's advertisement agencies. This first one I am doing on throwback Thursday because I had this over a year ago but still have the picture. The specimen today is Taco Bell's Smothered Burrito.

Let’s compare the picture first. To start nothing at Taco bell or really any Mexican restaurant will ever be as neatly layered and perfectly round as they show in their picture. A burrito also doesn’t really need to be so perfect in my opinion anyways, especially a smother burrito, you want a little mess to it. Now the sauce and cheese I would say are pretty comparable and represent what you actually get fairly well, nice job TBell. Now the Sour cream, ha-ha. It really wouldn’t be that hard to make a zigzag pattern with the caulk gun they use to shoot sour cream on this burrito, but what do I know, I don’t have a sour cream gun (yet). Clearly this employee just wanted to throw a bunch of sour cream in the middle and not evenly dispersed it. Which leads me to the actually filing of the burrito.

While the ingredients are all there as the add says, Chicken, rice, Beans, chipotle sauce, they were not evenly distributed. One end was all chicken, the other end was all beans, but this is a pretty common result for Taco Bell. I don’t really remember the chipotle sauce so either I didn’t get much in mine or it wasn’t very memorable. My favorite part to the ingredients and description of this is the “reduced-fat sour cream." As if anyone ordering the smothered burrito really cares about reduced-fat. In the words of my dad "must be healthy."

I do remember liking the smothered burrito. Obviously it looks nothing like the advertisement, but that’s the point of this series. Don't judge a food by its advertisement or its actual appearance, just give it a taste.

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I grew up in the Detroit Suburbs and have always loved food
and cooking. I think it stems from my Grandparents
taking me on trips around the world and making me try new things. Now I live by the motto, “try everything
once, you may just like it.” I am by no means a chef or a writer. Just a guy who likes food and getting people
to try new things.